Monument Valley came to iOS a few weeks ago, and now it's available on Android as well. This is a puzzle game, but it's probably totally unlike anything you've ever played before. In fact, it seems almost too strange to exist at times with some of the most clever game design to grace a mobile device. You have to traverse a dreamy, impossible world in Monument Valley by changing your perspective. It's like a living MC Escher drawing in video game form.

Monument Valley came to iOS a few weeks ago, and now it's available on Android as well. This is a puzzle game, but it's probably totally unlike anything you've ever played before. In fact, it seems almost too strange to exist at times with some of the most clever game design to grace a mobile device. You have to traverse a dreamy, impossible world in Monument Valley by changing your perspective. It's like a living MC Escher drawing in video game form.

The concept of Monument Valley is easy to grasp on the surface, but the way the game implements it is unique. You have to tap along the maze-like paths to guide the princess through each level to move on the the next. Sometimes you'll need to drag a block or spin a wheel to move part of the platform into place, but it's what happens when you move things that makes Monument Valley amazing. It's not your character's perspective that matters—it's your own.

Lets say there's a section of the path that can be spun around with a wheel at the bottom of a pillar. You step on-board and rotate, but from your perspective, the end of that beam now lines up with a completely different platform that wasn't even in the same plane before. You can simply tap to walk off onto that other section, and the design of the level has been fundamentally altered as if you just blinked away an optical illusion. You can literally walk around on an impossible triangle in monument valley.

The graphics are very clean and geometric, which makes a lot of sense given the style of puzzling aspect. The bright colors and ambient music create a relaxing experience that's actually quite beautiful. The amazing gameplay and stunning visuals make for an almost impossibly elegant game. Monument Valley is $3.99 and contains no in-app purchases. You simply must play this.